Court Orders Naira Marley\u2019s Arrest Over Alleged car Theft<\/p>\n
A Tinubu Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court in Lagos on Monday ordered that a Nigerian musician, Adeyemi Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley should be arrested and arraigned over alleged car theft.<\/p>\n
The chief magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, ordered that the Investigating Police Officer (IPO), Sgt. Sunday Idoko, handling the case must present Naira Marley in court on the next date of adjournment.<\/p>\n
However, two of the musician\u2019s brothers and his cousins appeared in court over alleged theft of a car and a cell phone.<\/p>\n
The defendants, Idris Fashola, 18, Babatunde Fashola, 24; and Kunle Obere, 22, are facing a four-count charge bordering on conspiracy, stealing, assault and obstructing the arrest of Naira Marley<\/p>\n
The chief magistrate granted the three defendants N500, 000 bail with two sureties in like sum.<\/p>\n
He ordered the IPO to produce Naira Marley before the court on Dec. 21, when the case would be listed for further hearing<\/p>\n
The prosecutor, ASP Edet Okoi, told the court that the three defendants committed the on Dec. 16, at Eko Hotel Round about on Victoria Island, Lagos<\/p>\n
He said that the trio who were in a motorcade with Naira Marley, stole a Toyota Camry vehicle with Registration No. FEE 120 AA valued at N1.8 million and an IPhone X5 worth N330,000 belonging to one Mr Adelekan Ademola.<\/p>\n
He added that the three defendants and others at large assaulted the complainant by beating him up.<\/p>\n
Okoi alleged that the second defendant, Babatunde Fashola and others at large obstructed the police while performing their lawful duty and prevented them from arresting Naira Marley.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the vehicles in the musician\u2019s motorcade hit the complainant\u2019s vehicle from the back while he was throwing out money from his vehicle to his fans.<\/p>\n
\u201d When the complainant came down from the vehicle to inspect the damage, Obere entered into the complainant\u2019s Camry and drove it off with the motorcade.\u201c Ademola reported to the police and the vehicle was tracked to where it was parked at Jakande Crescent, Oniru in Lagos.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the police arrived at the location in company with the complainant, Naira Marley and his boys started beating the complainant.\u201d<\/p>\n
A group of boys obstructed the police from arresting the musician but they were able to apprehend the three defendants,\u201d he alleged.He said that the offences contravened Sections 112,172, 287 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Court Orders Naira Marley\u2019s Arrest Over Alleged car Theft A Tinubu Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court in Lagos on Monday ordered that a Nigerian musician, Adeyemi Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley should be arrested and arraigned over alleged car theft. The chief magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, ordered that the Investigating Police Officer (IPO), Sgt. Sunday Idoko, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t